Last Night: Later With Jools Holland, BBC2

"In this room we have two No 1 artists, and the First Lady of France." It wasn't a phrase I recall Jimmy Savile ever using to introduce Top Of The Pops, but then Carla Bruni's predecessors, the various Madames Mitterand, Pompidou, Chirac etc, probably never had much cause to rub shoulders with the likes of Mud and Spandau Ballet. But Later With Jools Holland has built its reputation on mixing disparate strains of music together in one room, and this was pretty much par for the course, musically,...

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